»Attributing Value (Refractions)« is an ongoing video series documenting various artist’s works. The works are environmentalized and refracted through the structural data of artist Damon Zucconi himself. Sofar completed are Bruce Nauman: 100 Live, 100 Die; Carsten Nicolai: Syn_Chron; Pierre Huyghe: L’Expedition scintillante; Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipse VI; 0100101110101101.org: jodi.org “%20Transfer”.
»Zenith Alignments«. Using star tracking software, minor zenith alignments with celestial bodies were found to occur at multiple intervals throughout the course of the day over various locations. These precise locations were located via GPS. 3-point areas were located at sites of the zenith alignments. These areas were highlighted and clearings were made to coincide with the alignments. So at the moment of the alignment Damon Zucconi would be exposing the ground and aligning himself with the line that extends to the star. These specific alignments were unique to these specific locations, occurring once an annual cycle. This could largely be seen as the process of integrating himself with 90 degree angles, in turn, demarcating larger phenomenological alignments and relations: “the body mapped onto the land onto the heavens above.”
»’At’ Asserting its Object Status«. Found sculpture.
»2d Orthogonal Line Drawing«. Drawing with laser and mirrors. All projects by Damon Zucconi.
»candle, candle«, 2005, by Scabolcs Kisspál.
“Tree hang one”, “Pinecone”, “Legline”, “Leap into the yard” and “Dirt roll one” by Keith Boadwee.
»The constellation of candles in the field corresponding to the constellation of the stars in the sky«, 2004 by IRWIN, is a photo reconstruction of the group OHO action »The constellation of candles in the field corresponding to the constellation of the stars in the sky« from 1970.
Other reproductions of OHO actions by IRWIN.
»IRWIN with Marina Abramovic.« A collective of five Slovene artists IRWIN, was founded 1983 and since has been a dynamic force in contemporary Eastern European art. They describe their own work as retro-avant garde and are emphatic about their work being collective rather than individual. The group also co-founded the wider cultural collective Neue Slowenische Kunst.
A fast rotatign LCD-monitor generates three dimensional phantom images which can be observed from all sides, without the aid of special glasses or the like. The image shown is a simple vector movie based on the novel »Flatlands« by E. A. Abbot, in which a square living in a two dimensional world receives a visit from a ball. This Spatial Vision Device is called »Hanoscop« in tribute to an inventor, Mr. Hanisch, who patented a machine based on similar principles in 1966
»The Flying Carpet« is a hovercraft powered by a leafblower.
The propeller of a marine outboard engine has been replaced by wheels, which make the »Independent Trailer« an autonomous vehicle.
»Spleen« is a freeze-frame explosion, an autopsy on motor and chassis that encapsulates the utopian fantasy of the overhauled scooter, driving off into the sunset.
»Das Schaukelhaus«.
A »Bonanzarad« has this name only in German speaking Europe. Teenagers, who invented it in the 60s in Long Beach and built it out of junk, never had the intention of constructing something faster or better than existing bikes, rather it was a pre-teen, Pop era status symbol. The many details and saddle seat evoked the feeling of riding a horse or an Easy Rider motorcycle. A playing card mounted in the wheel spokes created a motor-like noise, just as here, the chainsaw is used constructively. Through an alteration to the chain on the rear wheel, the vision is obtained, and the Wannabe‘s dream is realized…
By pedaling, electricity is generated that powers the motor for an electric wheelchair, that makes the »Healed Home Exercise Bike« move. The tachometer indicates the phantom-speed.
By controlling the suction of 35 burning cigarettes the »Cigarette Display« device can display simple graphics, letters and symbols. All projects by David Moises.
»Selfportrait As An Artist On Vacation« and
»Lost (As Bas Jan Ader)« by Jason Lazarus.
»Painting Modernism Black (After Damien Hirst and Mark Bridger)« by Felix Gmelin.
Watch Baldessari Sings LeWitt from 1972 and I Am Making Art from 1971 and more.
